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    PAST EVENTS

    Friday, March 17, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

    Queer week at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Queer Week is a fes­tival which imple­ments con­fer­ences, work­shops, debates, pro­jec­tions, exhi­bi­tion and dis­cus­sion around ques­tions of gendre and sex­u­ality every year in Paris. Years after years, it has become a nec­es­sary and impor­tant plat­form in the pro­cess of making heard voices of speakers coming from dif­ferent back­grounds. For each of its occur­rences, scholars, activists and artists are invited to talk about their research, knowl­edge,expe­ri­ences and pro­duc­tions.

    11h-13h / Queer, Medias, Series 
    Speaker Nadia Ahmane, will ana­lyze queer­ness in TV series in a one hour Pop con­fer­ence, & Nelly Quemener, researcher in soci­ology of mass media will ana­lyze queer­ness in media and pop­ular cul­ture.

    14h-15h30 / Post-porn : for pos­i­tive sex­u­al­i­ties
    With Florian Vörös, bruce et Sarah de Vicomte. Organised in part­ner­ship with Garçes, in the frame­work of a cycle on sex­u­al­i­ties.

    16h-17h / “Traduire en cuir”
    Conference by Christopher Larkosh (UMass Dartmouth)

    17h30 – 19h / Globalization, Neoliberalism and Precariousness
    Through the per­spec­tive of a reflexion on glob­al­iza­tion, neolib­er­alism and pre­car­i­ous­ness, Jules Falquet will pre­sent his lat­est­book; Pax neolib­er­alia, Sam Bourcier will talk about his upcoming book The Triangle and the Unicorn as Barabara de Vivo and Roger Fiorilli will focus on fighting strate­gies imple­menting in trans­fem­i­nist Italian move­ment against pre­car­i­ous­ness.

    Queer Week at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Friday, March 17, 2017.


    Queer Week at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Friday, March 17, 2017.


    Queer Week at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Friday, March 17, 2017.


    Queer Week at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Friday, March 17, 2017.


    Queer Week at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Friday, March 17, 2017.


    Queer Week at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Friday, March 17, 2017.

    Saturday, March 25, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

    Livestream of the dis­cus­sion between Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti & Fabrizio Terranova organ­ised by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Utrecht University
    In English.
    More infor­ma­tion here

    Livestream of a discussion between Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti organized by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Saturday, March 25, 2017.


    Livestream of a discussion between Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti organized by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Saturday, March 25, 2017.

    Friday March 31, 5pm

    Ukraine: Contemporary & Feminist Art as a response to social chal­lenges

    Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research wel­comes Lesia Kulchynska and Oksana Briukhovetska from the Kiev Visual Culture Research Center for a debate on con­tem­po­rary and fem­i­nist art. The dis­cus­sion will be in English.

    Revolutions, war: the last 10 years have been a period of strong social changes in Ukraine. Politics are back on stage: with, on one side, the strength­ening the extreme right dis­course and on the other side the devel­op­ment of fem­i­nism, of the LGBT move­ment and of civil society. 
    Since the first rev­o­lu­tion in 2004 con­tem­po­rary art in Ukraine has become socially and polit­i­cally engaged. 
    After Maidan rev­o­lu­tion (2013) now with the war, art actively reacts to trau­matic social expe­ri­ences. The ques­tions of women and migrants rights, in par­tic­ular, are exac­er­bated. 

    Lesia Kulchynska will speak about artistic strate­gies emerging in response to the dif­fi­cult social reality and will explain how vio­lence and cen­sor­ship inter­venes into the cul­tural sphere. 
    Oksana Briukhovetska will con­tex­tu­alize fem­i­nist and gender topi­cal­i­ties in the art field and society in gen­eral, pro­viding a com­par­a­tive per­spec­tive on the cur­rent Ukrainian sit­u­a­tion together with other post-Soviet and Eastern European coun­tries.

    The Visual Research and Culture Centre of Kiev is one of the first inde­pen­dent cul­tural and artistic cen­ters in Kiev, it is the orga­nizer of the Kiev Biennale in 2015. It has orga­nized sev­eral openly fem­i­nist exhi­bi­tions since its opening in 2008.

    This work­shop is orga­nized in part­ner­ship with the Visual Research and Culture Center and Alternatives Européennes, a transna­tional asso­ci­a­tion that advo­cates for ’equality, democ­racy and cul­ture in Europe’, which aims to bring together cit­i­zens, artists, cura­tors, Intellectuals across Europe to create a demo­cratic and open Europe. The asso­ci­a­tion orga­nizes artistic, cul­tural and polit­ical events including the bian­nual TRANSEUROPA fes­tival in the European Union and beyond.

    Ukraine: Contemporary & Feminist Art as a response to social challenges, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Friday, March 31, 2017.
    Rudolph Ackermann, Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, 1809, print.

    Saturday April 29, 2017. From 2.30pm to 5.30pm

    Workshop: Attempting to exhaust an impos­sible theory*, by Colophon
    *The theory of reading artists’ books
    To reg­ister and/or get fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the event, please write to info@­be­ton­salon.net
    Object: Atelier Colophon

    “The way they are meant to be seen, is obvi­ously when someone hands someone else a book, at moments and places that weren’t expected “
    Ed Ruscha
    Facing the polit­ical uncer­tain­ties of our time in a period pre­ceding elec­tions, a work­shop will take place within the exhi­bi­tion space of Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. It will build on the pieces of fur­ni­ture dis­played in Emmanuelle Lainé’s instal­la­tion. Starting from a selec­tion of books coming from Colophon and from Katinka Bock’s Shared Letters (a col­lec­tion of books hosted by Bétonsalon) the work­shop “At­tempting to exhaust an impos­sible theory*” offers (an attempt of) the­o­riza­tion through sev­eral actions, such as reading or the indi­vidual use of artists’ books. We aim at unveiling a broad field of pos­si­bil­i­ties at an indi­vidual scale.

    This work­shop has been thought as an oppo­si­tional public space (Oskar Negt, L’espace public oppo­si­tionnel, Payot, 2007) during which par­tic­i­pants will be invited to think of ways of appro­pri­ating books that will be shared on this occa­sion. So as to create a specific eco-system based on sharing, par­tic­i­pants are asked to bring recording and/or pub­lishing devices allowing them to interact with books: printers, paper, cam­eras, voice recorders, com­puters, and so on.

    About Colophon:
    Colophon is a semi-itin­erant library ded­i­cated to self and inde­pen­dent pub­lishing in the field of visual art. The pro­ject is car­ried by Frédéric Blancart. As expressed by the word “Colophon”, our pro­ject aims at pro­viding a panoramic view of edi­to­rial prac­tices in visual arts. Since its opening in 2016, Colophon orga­nized public dis­cus­sions at Mains d’Oeuvres (Saint-Ouen) during which artists, edi­tors and cura­tors were invited to dis­cuss and debate aes­thetic and eco­nomic issues regarding micro-edi­tions.

    Workshop: Attempting to exhaust an impossible theory*, by Colophon at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris, 2017.


    Workshop: Attempting to exhaust an impossible theory*, by Colophon at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris, 2017.

    Saturday May 6, from 3pm to 6pm
    Courage! Hegel & pol­i­tics today.
    A con­ver­sa­tion with Frank Ruda

    The con­ver­sa­tion will be in English

    On the eve of a major demo­cratic choice, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research wishes to con­vene an alter­na­tive space for debate and exchange. We are happy to invite Frank Ruda for a con­ver­sa­tion. He is a philoso­pher and one of the most inci­sive polit­ical thinkers of today, notably addressing and re-defining con­cepts of courage, fatalism, and freedom.

    Courage! Hegel and Politics Today

    On average, one might think twice before asking a philoso­pher what to do, espe­cially in pol­i­tics. And philoso­phers there­fore seem to have been jus­ti­fi­ably and famously chided by Marx for being lost, not in trans­la­tion, but in their own inter­pre­ta­tions that never actu­ally changed any­thing (except pre­vious inter­pre­ta­tions). Yet, if one actu­ally starts browsing through the his­tory of phi­los­ophy, it is harder to find those only-inter­preting philoso­phers that Marx attacked than one would have imag­ined. Most of them were engaged in one way or the other in a polit­ical move­ment, were advo­cates a polit­ical system, or pro­po­nents of their very own polit­ical, some­times utopian agenda. With at least one – maybe there are more –excep­tion: the one philoso­pher who claimed phi­los­ophy’s job is no other than just to under­stand its own time as it is (and “ap­pre­hend it in thought”), that is, Hegel. Yet and strangely, despite Hegel’s own insis­tence that phi­los­ophy has no other job than to think what is, by some of his heirs he was attacked for having been a mere apol­o­gist of the Prussian state, by others (sur­pris­ingly Lenin is one of them) he was the one to return to when all hith­erto attempts for col­lec­tive eman­ci­pa­tion and rev­o­lu­tion failed. Some of the ques­tions that the lec­ture and the dis­cus­sion will be addressing are the fol­lowing one: Is there any­thing still to be learnt or to be retained from Hegel? Does he have any­thing to tell us today – any­thing that might be of polit­ical (or other) con­tem­po­rary rel­e­vance?

    Frank Ruda is cur­rently pro­fessor for social phi­los­ophy at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany and co-editor of the journal “Crisis and Critique”. His most recent pub­li­ca­tions include: The Dash – The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay)(MIT Press, 2017); Reading Marx (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Zizek (Polity Press, 2017); Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for A Contemporary Use of Fatalism (Nebraska UP, 2016). He will be dis­cussing with Oliver Feltham; Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Paris

    Meeting between Frank Ruda and Oliver Feltham, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris, 2017.
    La Théorie du crocodile, image : Gil Lefauconnier.


    Wednesday May 10, from 4.30 to 6.30 pm– 5/10 years (par­ents can join
    Dance work­shop with Les Ouvreurs de Possibles
    In part­ner­ship with Théâtre Dunois
    As part of the PIC fes­tival (Par Ici la Culture / Culture this way)

    The crocodile (put if dif­fer­ently, our rep­tilian brain) is this part that pro­tect us and defends our need. This work­shop, elab­o­rated in rela­tion with the per­for­mance on the Theory of the Crocodile, pro­poses that the inner move­ments be explored through ges­tures linked wit emo­tions and ani­mality, through the crocodile’s atti­tude.
    Free work­shop – Registration with the the­atre at the fol­lowing number or email address:01 45 84 72 00 or lealom­bar­do@the­atre­dunois.org

    More infor­ma­tion

    Dance workshop with Les Ouvreurs de Possibles in partnership with Théâtre Dunois, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research on May, 2017.


    Dance workshop with Les Ouvreurs de Possibles in partnership with Théâtre Dunois, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research on May, 2017.

    Opening on Wednesday May, 17, 2017 from 6 to 9 pm.
    Exhibition from Wednesday, May 17 to Saturday, May 20, 2017.

    The Whole is Always Smaller than its Parts
    We’re over­taken by events.

    Curated by Olivier Bémer and Elsa Michaud

    For the second time, Claude Closky’s stu­dents will dis­play their works at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research for a short exhi­bi­tion within the exhi­bi­tion.
    Emmanuelle Lainé allowed the artists to take over the exhi­bi­tion space by responding to her instal­la­tion Incremental Self: Transparent Bodies.

    With: Chadine Amghar, Olivier Bémer, Clément Bleu—Pays, Kim Bradford, Inès Dobelle, Margot Douay, Jonás Fadrique, Elias Gama Paez, Manon Gignoux, Nastassia Kotava, Cham Lavant, Elsa Michaud, Martin Poulain, Sacha Rey, Matthew Young Chan Junn, Yann Yue Yuan

    More infor­ma­tion

    Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research invited three groups of researchers and artists to pro­pose a series of public pro­grams ded­i­cated to the mul­ti­plicity and fragility of con­tem­po­rary iden­ti­ties. Each event will take place within Emmanuelle Lainé’s exhi­bi­tion Incremental Self: Transparent Bodies.  

    Saturday, June 3, 3 – 6 pm
    WeTransfer: Diasporic and Situated Knowledge

    Drawing from the con­cept of the car­ni­val­iza­tion of iden­ti­ties, artists Jean-François Boclé, Tarek Lakhrissi, Nathalie Muchamad and Mükerrem Tuncay will dis­cuss con­cepts of disiden­ti­fi­ca­tion, cre­oliza­tion and car­nival, elab­o­rating on their own video works.

    Tarek Lakhrissi will talk about films and texts addressing lan­guage and poetry as utopias nec­es­sary to find one­self.

    Mükerrem Tuncay will pre­sent the video Great Depression; a metaphor­ical means to address her “for­eign” status.

    Nathalie Muchamad will talk about the syn­cretism of the Indonesian con­text, won­dering whether it can be per­ceived as a space for reflec­tion sim­ilar to the cre­oliza­tion pro­cess under­going in the French Caribbean.

    Jean-François Boclé will screen dialogo 1, AS.SAU.PA.MAR. Akiyo y Voukoum, a film made with the artist Mina Biabiany (unity IS SUBMARINE) in February 2017 in Guadeloupe, during the Carnival.

    This round table will be punc­tu­ated by two short video­con­fer­ences:

    Claire Tancons, curator, based in New Orleans (Louisiana, United States of America), will com­ment on her cura­to­rial prac­tice.

    The MEMORIAL ACTe, Caribbean Center of Expression and Memory of Slavery and Slave Trade based in Pointe-à-Pitre, will com­ment on its action and focus on the func­tion of car­ni­vals within the Guadeloupean Caribbean-French society.

    Jean-François Boclé (b. 1971 Martinique) Based in Paris. Graduated École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Bourges and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris. He develops a prac­tice which ques­tions the bipo­larity of the post­colo­nial glob­al­ized world, oscil­lating between vio­lence, tox­i­city, racial­iza­tion or gen­tri­fi­ca­tion and the pos­si­bility of We. He exhib­ited recently in the CCK (Buenos Aires), ILHAM Gallery (Kuala Lumpur), Para Site (Hong Kong), Saatchi Gallery (London), Queens Museum (NYC). He par­tic­i­pated to eleven inter­na­tional Biennials.

    Tarek Lahrissi is a visual artist, based in Paris. Now grad­uate in MA from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Tarek Lakhrissi did an inter­na­tional exchange at University of Montreal, com­pleting a Master’s degree in Art History/Theatre Studies. His research sub­ject was about inter­sec­tion­ality, disiden­ti­fi­ca­tion (Muñoz) and per­for­mance art through Adrian Piper and Darkmatter’s work. He directed a video pro­ject dias­pora/sit­u­a­tions (2016, Prix Spécial du Jury - Documentaire, Festival Transposition) about people of color reflecting on the impact of dias­poras on their bodies and their affects. He writes poetry and develops visual con­tent aiming to chal­lenge lan­guage and reflect upon iden­tity. He also works as a book­seller in the center of Paris.

    Nathalie Muchamad (b. New-Caledonia) Based in Paris and Lyon.
    Her research focuses on fic­tion as a place where the making/man­u­fac­ture of memory is pos­sible/becomes a pos­si­bility. Make and inject with memory. Exhibition: Villa Vassillieff , Tomorrow is an island , Paris. 2016. Institut Français, Des Mondes Parallèles. Curator Georges Rey & Néon Centre d’art. Tunisia. 2016. Le Magasin CNAC Grenoble, 2014. Solo show 2016: Halle de Pont-en-Royans. Upcoming: Biennal of Lyon 2017 and Espace-Projet Residency, Montréal, Canada , 2017.

    Mükerrem Tuncay (b. 1987) lives and works in Lyon, France where she grad­u­ated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 2013. Her recent group exhi­bi­tions are Potnia Theron, Altana Galerie, Dresden (2016); Casting the circle, Galerist, Istanbul (2016); Clicks & Bricks I, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (2016); Après avoir tout oublié, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (2015). She was the recip­ient of the Prix Ville de Grenoble (2013) and Anna Lindh Foundation (2009) awards.

    Claire Tancons, trained as a curator and art his­to­rian, she prac­tices curating as an expanded cre­ative field akin to directing and exper­i­ments with the polit­ical aes­thetics of walking, marching, second lining, mas­querading and parading.


    "WeTransfer: Diasporic and Situated Knowledge", on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    "WeTransfer: Diasporic and Situated Knowledge", on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    Thursday, June 6, 5 pm – 8 pm
    Scenopoïetes

    Creation work­shop Maison cen­trale de Poissy / Paris Diderot University
    Under the direc­tion of Julie Ramage
    Screening of the works made during the work­shop and launching of the pub­li­ca­tion.

    As part of the Académie vivante (Living Academy), con­vict stu­dents from Poissy prison have been invited to remotely col­lab­o­rate with under­grad­uate Letters stu­dents for a writing work­shop focusing on the ques­tion of earth/ter­ri­tory.
    What is the dif­fer­ence between earth -its organic com­po­si­tion, its bio­log­ical and geo­log­ical his­tory, its botan­ical speci­fici­ties- and ter­ri­tory; which entails notions of bor­ders and of col­lec­tive nar­ra­tives? How to con­sider of the prison “ter­ri­tory”; a space that has been civi­cally, socially and eco­nom­i­cally dis­tanced from the rest of society? What can we learn from a sci­en­tific study of its ground? What can we learn by reflecting on the modes of ter­ri­to­ri­al­iza­tion which have been bor­rowed by the con­victs – such as the cul­ti­va­tion of parcels within the prison?
    How the the expe­ri­ence and skills of each of the par­tic­i­pants may enrich the dia­logue?

    This pro­ject has been orga­nized as part of the Ateliers des Lettres from the URF Lettres, Arts, Cinéma and by the Section for Convict Students of Paris-Diderot University. It has been sup­ported by the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Arts Cinéma (CERILAC), from Paris Diderot University, by the Service d’Accompagnement aux Pédagogies Innovantes et à l’Enseignement Numérique de Sorbonne Paris CIté (SAPIENS-USPC), by the Service Pénitentiaire d’Insertion et de Probation (Yvelines region), and by DRAC Ile-de-France.

    Launching of the publication "Scenopoïetes", on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.

    Wednesday, June 7, from 7 pm onwards

    Performances & recital as part of the Nio Far Festival.
    Reading-per­for­mance “Sucre Amer”, by Françoise Vergès & Sylvie Robic:
    Talking about sugar as a com­po­nent of daily life, Françoise Vergès & Sylvie Robic will trace its link to slavery, to European lit­er­a­ture, cap­i­talism, con­sump­tion, sex­u­ality and adver­tising.
    Followed by a per­for­mance by Jephthé Carmil & recital by Claude Saturne .
    Find the full pro­gram­ma­tion of Nio Far fes­tival here.

    Jephté Carmil’s performance, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, as part of the Nio Far Festival.


    Françoise Vergès and Sylvie Robic’s reading performance, Sucre Amer, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, as part of the Nio Far festival.
    Iris Le Mée, Panthéon, 2017.

    Wednesday, June 14, 11 am – 7 pm
    Leaving the work­shop
    Presentation of the fine art works made by the 2nd year stu­dents of ENSA Paris-Val de Seine. Teacher: Guillaume Meigneux

    For one semester the stu­dents had to invest sev­eral public spaces gen­er­ating dis­tur­bances, trans­forming meaning, causing acci­dents that allowed to shed a new light on these places.
    These inter­ven­tions could have been exe­cuted through per­for­mance, instal­la­tion, or drift stem­ming from a close, atten­tive reading of the site.
    What will be pre­sented are the remaining traces of these inter­ven­tions, their formal, visual sed­i­men­ta­tions, which, by being jux­ta­posed in the exhi­bi­tion space will give shape to a new fic­tion cre­ating new sit­u­a­tions.

    With works by: César Alterio, Héloïse Bocher, Charles Elias Boudlal, Sophie Branchereau, Camille Chaboud, Melis Sila Cicek, Arthur Clément, Valerio Costa, Morgane Cozic, Constance d’Espinose de Lacaillerie, Thomas de Chavigny, Pauline de la Morinerie, Marcela Agda de Vincenzo Brandolin, Alexandre Gendry, Raphaël Guerrier, Coline Hennequin, Audrey Kac, Sarah Khodri, Iris Le Mée, Elisa Leymarie, Alexandra Mallah, Raphaëlle Mola, Antoine Monjou, Romane Pauchet, Martin Perraudeau.

    "Leaving the work­shop" , presentation of the works made by the 2nd year stu­dents of ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    "Leaving the work­shop" , presentation of the works made by the 2nd year stu­dents of ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    "Leaving the work­shop" , presentation of the works made by the 2nd year stu­dents of ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    Saturday, June 17, 4 pm – 6 pm
    Tehran: iden­ti­ties/spaces
    A pro­gram by Pooya Abbasian and Clémentine Proby

    Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research invited three groups of researchers and artists to pro­pose a series of public pro­grams ded­i­cated to the mul­ti­plicity and fragility of con­tem­po­rary iden­ti­ties. Each event will take place within Emmanuelle Lainé’s exhi­bi­tion Incremental Self: Transparent Bodies.

    In Teheran, spaces brand bodies and divide up iden­ti­ties. The tran­si­tion from pri­vate to urban and public spaces first pro­duces a phys­ical effect. Social inter­ac­tions too are affected by it. Suspicion is common; it char­ac­ter­izes the extreme dichotomy which keeps apart pri­vate and public life.
    Yet, the cit­i­zens whose rights are repressed (women, layper­sons, mem­bers of ethnic, reli­gious or sexual minori­ties) imagine strate­gies to juggle with a restric­tive urban space that lacks tol­er­ance. Citizens last­ingly mark the city through their prac­tices, move­ments, and inter­ac­tions. The envi­ron­ment builds up and takes on new mean­ings under the influ­ence of people roaming through, lin­gering, and meeting up in the streets.
    What are these strate­gies and where are they imple­mented? Can we iden­tify tran­si­tional spaces for these plural iden­ti­ties? How do the latter affect urban space? How did these split iden­ti­ties inten­sify among Tehran minority com­mu­ni­ties?
    Through a corpus of films, videos, and pho­tographs, artists and aca­demics will address the dichotomy between pri­vate and public life, stressing on their own expe­ri­ences and fields of exper­tise, focusing on some existing places in Tehran that crys­tal­lize this ten­sion, and on the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of iden­ti­ties in the specific con­text of public space.

    With: Pooya Abbasian (artist, col­lab­o­rator of Jafar Panahi), Bahar Azadi (PhD researcher in phi­los­ophy, Paris Descartes University), Kamelia Banisadr (artist), and Chahla Chafiq (writer and soci­ol­o­gist).
    Event mod­er­ated by Clémentine Proby.

    Chahla Chafiq is a writer and soci­ol­o­gist. She was born and grew up in Iran. After having actively par­tic­i­pated in the Iranian Revolution, her oppo­si­tion to the Islamist regime forced her into exile. She has been living in France since 1982, where she com­pleted her soci­ology studies. Her PhD thesis, which addressed ques­tions of polit­ical Islam and gender, received Le Monde award for aca­demic research.
    Chahla Chafiq writes in French and Farsi. She has been actively sup­porting move­ments for human rights and women’s freedom. She is the co-founder of the International net­work of sol­i­darity with fem­i­nists in Iran (2007).

    Kamelia Banisadr     is an Iranian artist born in Teheran in 1989, who grad­u­ated with from the Paris-Cergy school of arts in 2017. After having worked for sev­eral months at the AZAD Art Gallery, Teheran, and after training with a mirror man­u­fac­turer, she devel­oped a research focusing on shape and space in rela­tion to the con­tem­po­rary Iranian society, while finding inspi­ra­tion in a tra­di­tion that she also trans­formed. She is looking for artistic ways of gath­ering indi­vid­uals in a frag­mented society.

    Bahar Azadi is a PhD can­di­date in Philosophy at the Sorbonne Paris-Descartes University. She grad­u­ated in Sociology from the Allameh Tabatabaei University in Teheran, and in Urbanism from INSA in Strasbourg. Her thesis is enti­tled: The making of sex­u­al­ized bodies. Transsexuality after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. She pub­lished arti­cles in sev­eral jour­nals; the last one will appear in Implications philosophiques.

    Pooya Abbasian is a Paris-based artist and director born in Iran in 1983. Focusing orig­i­nally on visual arts, his work was exhib­ited in var­ious gal­leries and fes­ti­vals in Tehran and abroad, casting an ironic eye on the pat­terns of “self-exoti­cism” among artists from the Middle East.
    He now embraces a large range of media and prac­tices. As a director and film editor, he col­lab­o­rated closely with director Jafar Panahi, directed videos for sev­eral museums and bands like Birdpen and Abby (Universal Music). He recently pub­lished two chil­dren’s books, as author and illus­trator: Un arbre pour ami (Gallimard, 2016) and Mes amis mon­stres (Actes Sud, 2017). Pooya Abbasian is cur­rently working on a very per­sonal pho­tog­raphy/drawing pro­ject.

    "Tehran: iden­ti­ties/spaces", on Saturday, June 17, 2017, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    "Tehran: iden­ti­ties/spaces", on Saturday, June 17, 2017, at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research. With (from left to right): Pooya Abbasian, Kamelia Banisadr, Bahar Azadi and Chahla Chafiq.

    Wednesday, June 21, 7 pm.
    World Music Day, Vocal group “À Tire-d’Elles”
    Renaissance and baroque English, French, Italian songs, Russian lul­laby, Mozart’s canon, excerpt from Bach’s Magnificat, Poulenc’s melody….
    The plea­sure of learning meets that of the adjust­ment of har­mony vocals from a varied reper­toire, always per­formed a cap­pella.
    “What is more pow­er­less, vul­ner­able and hard to manage than an a cap­pella voice, intensely echoing our “fragile, pre­car­ious lives” or “the mul­tiple, the col­lec­tive, the incon­trol­lable”?
    Emerging from the depths of our bodies, seem­ingly escaping in a dema­te­ri­al­ized breath as the expres­sion of everyone’s unity and mul­ti­plicity, the voice seems to create, in the first place, its own tran­si­tional space, and to do without ancil­lary objects that pro­long and incre­ment the human.” (Valérie Mezger, DR CNRS, Paris Diderot University, UMR7216 Épigénétique et Destin cel­lu­laire)

    World Music Day, vocal group “À Tire-d’Elles” on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.

    Thursday, June 22, 5 – 7 pm
    Theatre play Les Royaumes d’Automnes per­formed by La Fabryk.
    Stage direc­tion: Thilina Pietro Femino

    "Les Royaumes d’Automne", performed by La Fabryk on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    "Les Royaumes d’Automne", performed by La Fabryk on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.

    Massinissa Selmani
    Friday, June 23, 11 am – 7 pm
    Kibrit كبريت On the reac­ti­va­tion of our col­lec­tive utopias and for­gotten nar­ra­tives

    Through per­for­mances, read­ings, dis­cus­sions, work­shops and screen­ings, the KIBRIT research sem­inar orga­nized at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research is con­ceived as a wide, frag­mented nar­ra­tive on the reac­ti­va­tion of our for­gotten his­to­ries and col­lec­tive utopias, par­tic­u­larly those that nour­ished the 1960s and 1970s in Morocco, Algeria and the region. Introducing modal­i­ties to reac­ti­vate his­to­ries and sit­u­a­tions, the invited artists, researchers and cura­tors share not only the will­ing­ness to give a new vis­i­bility to the too often for­gotten nar­ra­tives, years of fighting, utopias, ideals, and col­lec­tive move­ments of the past, but also to inves­ti­gate ways to reac­ti­vate these very ideals and values in the pre­sent and for the future.

    Detailed pro­gram

    With Marie Pierre Bouthier, Yasmina Reggad, Massinissa Selmani, Mohamed Fariji, Kenan Darwich and Omar Nicolas (Fehras Publishing Practices), Yasmina Naji and Nadine Atallah.
    Screening of the films by Ali Essafi and Marwa Arsanios

    KIBRIT (كبريت) is a col­lab­o­ra­tive research and pro­duc­tion pro­gramme focused on artistic and cura­to­rial prac­tices engaged in reflec­tions on pro­cesses of cul­tural and col­lec­tive mnemonic reac­ti­va­tion.

    11:00 / Francesca Masoero and Léa Morin “Kibrit: : reac­ti­vating our nar­ra­tives and utopias”
    Introduction to the research sem­inar and pre­sen­ta­tion of the pro­jects devel­oped by Kibrit’s part­ners.

    11:30 / Marie Pierre Bouthier “Ali Essafi: inher­iting the mon­tage”
    Ali Essafi focuses on Ahmed Bouanani’s prac­tice, by re-estab­lishing the pos­si­bility for an inter­gen­er­a­tional cul­tural trans­mis­sion notwith­standing the dif­fi­cul­ties posed by colo­nial and post-colo­nial rup­tures. In this vein, he con­tinues Bouanani’s inves­ti­ga­tion for a cinema whose forms could reac­tive tra­di­tional oral prac­tices. + screening of Wanted (2011, 24’) by Ali Essafi.

    12:30 / Lunch

    14:00 / Yasmina Reggad, “We dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming”
    Performance. Curatorial pro­ject for a plat­form ded­i­cated to alter­na­tive his­to­ries, emerged from the little known archives of the Radiodiffusion Télévision algéri­enne, which gave voice to the fights, hopes and pro­jects for the emer­gence of other futures during the 1960s and 1970s.

    14:30 / Massinissa Selmani in con­ver­sa­tion with Yasmina Reggad, 1000 vil­lages
    An artistic pro­ject focused on the agrarian rev­o­lu­tion and on a real-estate pro­ject that con­sid­ered the cre­ation of 1000 socialist vil­lages in Algiers at the begin­ning of the 70s.

    15:15 / Mohamed Fariji, A Collective Museum for Casablanca
    An artistic pro­ject for the cre­ation of a local museum ded­i­cated to the col­lec­tive memory of the city’s dis­tricts (indus­trial her­itage, amuse­ment parks, schools, aquarium) in Casablanca.

    16:00 / Break

    16:20 / Kenan Darwich and Omar Nicolas from Fehras Publishing Practices, When the library was stolen
    Research and pub­li­ca­tion on the library of the author and nov­elist Abd Al-Rahman Munif, a re-reading of the pub­li­ca­tion’s archive and pub­lishing prac­tices in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa during the 20th cen­tury.

    17:00 / Yasmina Naji
    MODERNITES NOMADES (Nomadic Modernities) is an ambi­tious edi­to­rial pro­ject co-directed by KULTE EDITIONS and ZAMAN BOOKS, which explores the unpub­lished archives of the Atelier (1971 - 1991) with the inten­tion to re-read them in the broader con­text of a transna­tional and post­colo­nial his­tory of arts.

    17:40 / Nadine Atallah, Words as Silence, Language as Rhymes by Marwa Arsanios
    Artist book con­ceived as a “re-edi­tion” of the Egyptian cul­tural magazine Al-Hilal, by playing with the visual and ide­o­log­ical lan­guage of the Nasser era + screening of Have You Ever Killed a Bear? or Becoming Jamila (25min, 2014) by Marwa Arsanios.

    18:30 / Open dis­cus­sion
    + Aperitive drinks

    A pro­posal con­ceived by Léa Morin (Atelier de l’Observatoire) and mod­er­ated by Francesca Masoero (LE 18, Kibrit coor­di­nator)

    KIBRIT is a pro­gram directed by LE 18 (Marrakech), Atelier de l’Observatoire (Casablanca), Rhizome (Algier), Maison de l’Image (Tunis), Ramallah Municipality, in part­ner­ship with JISER and CeRCCa (Barcelona). It takes the form of shared researches, car­togra­phies, artistic inter­ven­tions, res­i­den­cies, exhi­bi­tions, con­fer­ences, screen­ings, pub­li­ca­tions and a web plat­form.

    KIBRIT pre­sents a series of resources and sur­veys aiming at crossing knowl­edges and prac­tices and taking the form of com­mis­sioned texts and inter­views with thinkers, cura­tors and artists tack­ling our past, pre­sent and future rela­tion­ship (as cit­i­zens, intel­lec­tuals, artists) to his­tory, memory and the mul­tiple chal­lenges of our con­tem­po­rary soci­eties (such as edu­ca­tion, social and polit­ical engage­ment, ecology, urbanity, etc).

    Kibrit is funded by SouthMed CV, a pro­gramme ini­ti­ated by Interarts, BAC Art Center, Gudran for Art and Development, Khayal Arts & Education, National Center for Culture and Arts and the German Commission for UNESCO. The pro­gramme is co-funded by the European Union within the frame­work of the regional pro­gramme Med Culture.

    Study day "Kibrit كبريت On the reac­ti­va­tion of our col­lec­tive utopias and for­gotten nar­ra­tives", on Friday, June 23, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    Study day "Kibrit كبريت On the reac­ti­va­tion of our col­lec­tive utopias and for­gotten nar­ra­tives", on Friday, June 23, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    Study day "Kibrit كبريت On the reac­ti­va­tion of our col­lec­tive utopias and for­gotten nar­ra­tives", on Friday, June 23, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.


    Study day "Kibrit كبريت On the reac­ti­va­tion of our col­lec­tive utopias and for­gotten nar­ra­tives", on Friday, June 23, 2017 at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.